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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MICHAEL SIERSDORFER, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 420,252, dated January28, 1890.

Application filed April 29, 1389: Serial No. 309,006, (No model.)

T0 (oZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, lVIICHAEL SIERSDORFER, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Louisville, county of Jefferson, State of Kentucky,have invented a new and useful Towel- Holder, of which the following isa specification.

My invention relates to a clip or holder for ,.so suspending towels,napkins, &c., as, while facilitating their use, to make impossible theirclandestine removal or abstraction. With this object in view thenipping-jaws on being closed over the inserted towel or napkin becomeautomatically locked to such condition, and so remain until released bya key in the hand of the proprietor or his representative.

The accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, arevertical sections of a towel-holder embodying my improvements. 1

Figure 1 shows the device in the open or inoperative condition, and Fig.2 shows the device in the closed condition and grasping a towel ornapkin.

1 is a bow of spring-steel, to whose extremities are soldered orotherwise permanently fastened at 2 2 two jaws 3 3', whose lower endshave two opposing studs or bosses 4t 4:,

which, when the jaws are pressed together, as in Fig. 2, nearly or quitemeet within and loosely occupy a ring 5,whose eye or opening flares fromthe mid-thickness of the ring outward in both directions. The resilienceof the bow 1 tends to bring and retain the unlocked clip to the opencondition shown in Fig. 1.

The clip becomes automatically locked to the closed condition by thefollowing means: Secured to one of the jaws is a latch 6, and to theother jaw a keeper 7, which has an orifice 8 for the entrance of thesaid latch, and a pivoted spring-dog 9, that automatically engages thehook of the latch. The forward or effective stress of said dog is due toa spring 10. A stop 11 properly limits its forward play, so as topresent it in proper position to spring past and to engage Withthelatch, so as to imprison the same within the keeper and to thus-lock theparts to their closed or effective condition. The dog extends beyond itspivot in form of a heel 12, which being pressed by a key 13, insertedthrough the keyhole 14, operates to retract the dog and allow theresilient force of the bow 1 to open the clip and thus liberate thetowel or other article.

Having thus described my invention, the following is what I claim as newtherein and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

In a towel holder or clip, the combination, with the ring 5, of the jaws3 3, connected by spring-bow 1, and having the opposed bosses 4 4', onejaw having a latch 6 and the other 'jaw having a lock 7, which containsa spring dog 9 for engagement and retention of said latch and said ringon closure of said jaws, as and for the purposes explained.

MICHAEL SIERSDORFER.

Witnesses:

EMILE DUPAQUIER, FRANK SIERSDORFER.

